Regional Lead, Employment Taxes - Europe & Americas

Job Summary

We are seeking an employment tax leader to take on the role of Regional Lead, Employment Taxes - Europe & Americas.

This is a critical Employment Taxes leadership position at the intersection of tax, HR, and business strategy. You will drive the employment tax agenda across a complex, multi-jurisdictional environment, ensuring robust governance and regulatory excellence that enable business growth.

You will play a key role in shaping regional and global tax strategy, advising senior stakeholders, and positioning the organisation at the forefront of employment tax best practice, risk management, and transformation by partnering closely with the Head of Employment Taxes and Executive Tax Governance.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute the employment tax strategy across Europe & Americas
• Establish a strong, scalable governance and risk framework across multiple jurisdictions
• Ensure excellence in tax compliance, controls, governance and regulatory reporting
• Manage & govern employment tax risk across Europe & Americas
• Act as a senior subject matter expert, influencing business decisions and transformation initiatives
• Partner with stakeholders across HR, Reward, Payroll, Mobility, and Group Tax
• Advise on high-impact projects including restructurings, new market entries, and complex cross-border matters
• Proactively manage the employment tax risk profile across the Region
• Engagement with tax authorities, including HMRC, and manage audits and investigations.
• Maintain responsibility for key UK compliance areas including:
• Business Traveller reporting (appendix 6 and 4)
• PAYE Settlement Agreements (PSA)
• P11D / P11D(b) reporting
• Senior Accounting Officer (SAO) obligations
• Champion tax automation, and process optimisation of tax processes
• Continuously enhance efficiency, controls, and employee experience
• Embed a culture of innovation and continuous improvement across the Region
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing regional employment tax team
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and inclusion
• Drive consistency, discipline, and operational excellence across markets

Skills and Experience

• Strong employment tax expertise in the UK (expert level)
• Experience across Europe and/or Americas employment tax frameworks
• Proven ability to manage complex cross-border tax matters (e.g. benefits, expenses, mobility, employment status)
• Experience engaging with tax authorities and managing audits
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Experience leading teams and operating in a matrix, international environment

Qualifications

• Chartered Tax Advisor (CTA)
• Association of Tax Technicians (ATT)

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive,

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.